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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:42 PM
To: pojo@pojo.com
Subject: Ancient Raindance

Ah...the many variations of Raindance. ;) Here's one that I had also
experimented with for a while, but never actually had the desire to put
together...but I might now, aftering seeing that others can make it work.
Let's take a look:
>>>>
Dear Satoshi,

Since your specialty is rain dance decks, I figured you would be the perfect
one to fix my deck. Strategy after deck list:

Ancient Rain Dance

Pokemon
4 Squirtle (TR)
3 Blastoise
2 Cleffa (NG)
4 Omanyte (F)
3 Omastar (ND)
3 Seel
2 Dewgong

Trainers
4 Bill
4 Prof. Oak
4 Comp. Search
4 Mysterious Fossil
4 Pokemon Breeder
3 Fossil Egg
2 Misty's Tears

Energy
14 Water

After stalling with Seel or Cleffa, get Blastoise and Omanyte up and load
Omanyte up with water energy with rain dance then evolve him to Omastar and
pile on damage with Spike Barrage,with Dewgong and Blastoise as backup. The
idea of using Fossil Omanyte is because the Omastar family from Discovery is
fighting and rain dance won't work on non-water types. I hope this deck
catches you eye and you can improve it. Thanks for taking the time to read
my deck!
>>>>
Heh, very cool. Spike Barrage is a lot like Misty's Poliwhirl's Water Punch
now that I think about it. Hmm. Anyways, let's see what we can do here.

Pokemon
4 Squirtle (TR)
3 Blastoise
2 Cleffa (NG)
4 Omanyte (F)
3 Omastar (ND)
3 Seel
2 Dewgong

Well, for starters, we do not need the Dewgong family taking up space. Two
evolution lines imo is fine in a combo deck like this, but more than two is
pushing it. Remove the Seel and Dewgong for another Cleffa, a fourth
Blastoise, and 3 of everyone's favorite Raindance backup hitter...Neo:
Genesis Wooper. ;D

Pokémon (21)
4 Squirtle
4 Blastoise
3 Cleffa
4 Omanyte
3 Omastar
3 Wooper

Let's check out the Trainers now:

Trainers
4 Bill
4 Prof. Oak
4 Comp. Search
4 Mysterious Fossil
4 Pokemon Breeder
3 Fossil Egg
2 Misty's Tears

Alright, for the most part they look fine...but we need some Itemfinder.
Kill the Bill for four Itemfinder, and let's also ditch two Mysterious
Fossil for two Professor Elm. Finally, kill a single Misty's Tears for an
Ecogym:

Trainers (25)
4 Professor Oak
4 Computer Search
4 Itemfinder
4 Pokémon Breeder
3 Fossil Egg
2 Mysterious Fossil
2 Professor Elm
1 Misty's Tears
1 Ecogym

And finally, the Energy:

Energy (14)
14 Water

Bah! Perfect, no fixing needed here. ;)

Here she is:

Pokémon (21)
4 Squirtle
4 Blastoise
3 Cleffa
4 Omanyte
3 Omastar
3 Wooper
Trainers (25)
4 Professor Oak
4 Computer Search
4 Itemfinder
4 Pokémon Breeder
3 Fossil Egg
2 Mysterious Fossil
2 Professor Elm
1 Misty's Tears
1 Ecogym
Energy (14)
14 Water

Sorry for the short fix today, folks. I've got a bit of a headache and am
dragging around as it is, but a Deck Mechanic's work is never done. ;)
Anyway, great deck. It came to me with just some minor problems, and all in
all it could have been played fine had the owner taken it as it was.
Raindance lives on. :) Good luck and happy gaming!